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..and when he was asked about a statement on his Twitter account, “down with the house of Saud,” and what he meant and why he wrote it he said that he did in fact write it on his Twitter account and that he meant down with the regime, not family members, because he does not support the [presence of a] crown prince and the hereditary monarchy and he said that he follows people including Dr. al-Masari, Dr. Abdullah al-Hamid and Dr. Mohammad al-Qahtani.

All three are political opponents. The first of whom, al-Masari, has been in exile since 1994. The other two are among the co-founders of the ACPRA.